Excavations 2018

This is a temporary blog for presenting the excavations of 2018 at Perdigões. Posts from 2011 to 2017 are still available.

Wednesday, 5 August 2015

095 – Day 24

Today we
display areal images of sector Q

Here you
can see the area of the circular structure, the concentration of pits and the
new ditch.

Here is de
same image annotated (the small red dots mark the limits of the eastern
overture of the circular structure and the large red dot the central post hole.

The post
hole was excavated in the sediments of the Neolithic pit 62. To preserve the
original hole we did not excavate a quarter of that pit. We covered the hole
with plastic a put a post inside and we are refilling the pit. That is the best
way to preserve the original hole and simultaneously make it understandable to
the visitors by watching a post where originally would have been one.